Latent Energy Fields in the Body

other in fields and centers of function. Gravity and pressure are merely external aids for conditioning, but they are not the real factors moving the main currents of the body; they only assist the solids and gases in their motion of elimination.

The postures are given in easy steps, so the process is a natural, progressive approach without force. The postures are designed and used as an easy way of effortless effort, to move the deeper energy currents of the body by a process called "Wu-Wei"^[1] in the East. This literally means "doing by not doing." Let Mother Nature do it by co-operating with her and resting on her bosom. Thus let the Universal Currents take over the job. It is literally riding the River of Life's energy waves and tuning into them! It rests upon the understanding of Nature's law and the polarity of posture - positions - of the body. And these postures are not based on the erectness of the body to defy gravity. It is an effortless way of merely placing the body in a tension field where the airy energy principles are gently stimulated, so the vital forces can flow freely through the body and its muscular tissues, giving it more elasticity and a greater freedom of function through polarity balance.

Even as planetary bodies exert an influence in certain relationships to each other, so do their representative electromagnetic fields in the human body stimulate or inhibit vital function in that individual. That is why we feel better when the sun is shining brightly and on certain days when external vibratory magnetic stimulation gives us a lift. Science has proved that sun spots have a definite reaction on life and the well-being of mankind,^[2] and that the position of the moon has a definite relationship to vegetation and the sea. Judging by these effects in Nature in general, man cannot be isolated or left out of the beneficent and alternating action of the Universal Energy Currents.

A seed, planted in the ground, does nothing of itself. It is merely positioned into a natural environment where it can sprout by the action of forces from the outside. Then it liberates its potential energy which was dormant, and its own

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¹ One of the key concepts in Taoism.
² Alexander Chizhevsky (1897-1964), a Russian biophysicist, founded the study of heliobiology (the study of how the sun affects biology) and advanced the notion of sunspots and mass excitability. He compared the timing of sunspot activity with historical events, and found an eleven year cycle that corresponded with a significant number of riots, wars, and other social unrest involving large numbers of people.